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Hi everyone!
Im new in the forum, and I´m the happy owner of this little one.

Well, as I say in the subject, the problem is that, when it boots dont recognizes the cd rom and dont let me boot from a cd to install windows
Under windows it is recognized and works ok
And in the bios the cd rom unit dont have the "+" mark
The cd rom boots perfectly in the tp600 of a friend, so the cd rom works ok
I compared the last bios version in the ibm site and is the same of mine: R01_09c
So, why this is happening?
Thanks in advance

welcome to the forum

> in the bios the cd rom unit dont have the "+" mark

trying my 390x, this I also find: do you have the
CD-ROM above the HD in BIOS startup?

if so, suggest "smart boot manager," bootable floppy
utility that renders bootable CD-ROMs in machines
that normally won't boot from such

Hi, thanks for the advice. I never heard about smart boot, it´s very useful
I checked the order in bios and is this:
cd
fdd
boot from lan
hd

but when it boots, only the fdd reads before the hd
so I'm using a win98 floppy to install win98 from cd and finally instaled win98!!
but bad news: the fan during post it´s running ok, but it stops when windows boot and starts to overheating!
I removed the keyboard an put an athlon heatsink over the cpu plate, it works but the fan dont start to spin
Why is this happening? can this be solutioned?

Me again....
The TP is still overheating, and i cant find a solution on internet
Somebody knows something about this problem or how I can solve this?
I really need it!

Trying and triying to install win xp with the sm tool but it keeps failing, it didnt work!
does anyone know other program to do that?